Yep, definitely obsessed

[rj_anderson]

Thanks to lining up in front of our local children's bookstore at 11:30 last night (since I'd gone to bed at 9:40 and by 11:20 I still hadn't got to sleep), I ended up being only the third person to buy a copy of OotP in town. I would have been the second, except that I let a twelve-year-old girl dressed up as Hermione go ahead of me, because... well, if you'd seen her, you would have, too. (It was a great costume. And her hair was wonderfully bushy.)

Then I drove home, put the book on the kitchen table, and went straight to bed. Slept very poorly, thanks to the baby waking up and yelling intermittently for reasons which are still obscure. Dreamed about, of all things, The Hulk. (No, I haven't seen it. Wasn't even particularly planning to.)

And now I am writing this entry and listening to the kids chase each other around the house...

...when I could be starting OotP.

Erm.

Excuse me.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Good Lord. What a difference a population base makes. We got to our local Borders at 11:30, and waited outside in a huge line until midnight, because the store was already filled to capacity (this is an enormous "big-box" store), were let in when people started leaving after midnight clutching books, had to go wait in one line to pick up our reserved copy (they weren't even selling them if not pre-ordered), and then in another that snaked to the back of the store to pay. Didn't get home till nearly 2 a.m. Must have been, oh, the two thousandth person in town to buy one.

(Then read first chapter aloud as promised, sent Patrick to bed, read the next four to myself, and went to bed at 3 through an enormous act of will. And must not touch it today as I have a party to get ready for.)

Have fun!

Erica

Obsessed....

[(Anonymous)]

My advice:
Stay up all night.
Read until eyelids must be forcibly held open.
*Be* fried in the morning. What else is a husband for?
(Or, as I used to say, "It's Male Bonding Time, dear!)

Naomi, waiting for my ILL copy, somewhere around 47th on the list of over 300.